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Files containing data arrange in a table, often with commas (hence Comma Separated Values), to separate columns. Rows are separated by newlines (but not all newlines are row separators as fields can be quoted to contain the separator newlines. Use this tag for full-fledged CSV data not the simpler ...

How could I output the contents of a .csv file to a Zenity list. The file has multiple rows and columns and the rows are no fixed numbers. I would also like it so that when the user double clicks, on ...

I download CSV files (e.g. my bank account transactions) and would like to build reports (to print) from the data.
I have searched and found several report writer libraries, but all would force me to ...

I asked a question earlier and it was closed as being a duplicate: How to parse XML to CSV with a shell script?. The answer in the duplicate that was linked suggested using a tool called XMLStarlet, ...

I went through the answers in this helpful thread, but my problem seems to be different enough that I can't think of good answer (at least with sed).
I have a large CSV file (200+ GB) with rows that ...

I am a complete beginner in using Linux and I would like to know how to export a bunch of data in the command line to a csv or spreadsheet file (or even text would work). Right now I am simply using ...

I have a csv file and the lines have different length. But all of them ends with a number surrounded by a pair of braces. For example,
........{5}
........{16}
I'd like to remove the number and the ...

I have number of zip files in a certain folder.
I want to capture file name and the size of the file in a csv format containing file names and sizes, one file per day. The file names do contain the ...

I have daily files that come in via FTP with incorrect dates in the first column of the file. I have figured out how to deduct one day to derive the correct date and print this to a new file. The main ...

I have a large CSV file (~15GB) which a client has sent over as an export of a table. The format is a follows:
field, ... , field, field which sometimes contains commas,
another field which sometimes ...

I run into this problem a lot with data, if I have some integers, I frequently want to look at differences between adjacent integers, I usually solve this in Ruby or Python, but I think such a thing ...